The ISSOME conference app for IPhone and IPad is now available for download. Features include sharing of comments, pictures and location with the other attendees and a map with annotations for important places. Enjoy! Developed by Johannes Berg at Lumi Mobile.

There is also an Android app that can be downloaded here.

24 August 2011

9.00-17.00        Doctoral forum – presentations of doctoral projects with discussion and feedback from senior researchers

18.00                  Reception for all delegates

25 August 2011

9.00                     Registration

10.00-10.15      Welcome to ISSOME

10.15-11.15      Beyond broadcast and consume: modification of provider-user information behaviours in social media space. Keynote: Professor Hazel Hall, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University.

11.15-12.45      Session 1: Libraries and social media

- Behavioural Traces and Indirect User-to-User Mediation in the Participatory Library / Lennart Björneborn

- How to study social media practises in converging library spaces. Making the case for deploying co-presence ethnography in studies of 2.0-libraries / Hanna Carlsson

- Implications of the Web 2.0 Technologies for Public Libraries intending to Facilitate Alternative Public Discourse / Leif Kajberg

- Geo-encoding of local services and information: Virtuaalipolku.fi / Samppa Rohkimainen

12.45-14.00      Lunch

14.00-15.00      Can Business Turn Social? Post-Control Society and Its Implications for Business and Management. Keynote: Professor Alf Rehn, School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University.

15.00-15.45      Coffee/Tea and Doctoral forum poster session

15.45-17.15      Session 2: Use of social media

- The use of social media technologies in the work practices of information professionals / Sally Burford

- Examining the use of Internet and social media among men at military conscription age / Heidi Enwald, Noora Hirvonen and Tim Luoto

- To Inform or to Interact, that is the question: The role of Freedom of Information in Social Media Policies / Mathias Klang and Jan Nolin

- Designing Games for Testing Information Behavior Theories / J. Tuomas Harviainen

19.00                  Conference banquet

26 August 2011

9.00-10.30        Session 3: Blogging and tagging

- Critical about clustering of tags: An intersectional perspective on folksonomies / Isto Huvila and Kristin Johannesson

- The creation of a personal space on the Internet: self presentation and self-disclosure in blogging / Jenny Bronstein

- On social media and document theory: an exploratory and conceptual study / Olle Sköld

- Linguistic and Cultural Differences in Content Management – Indexing and titling in multilingual and multicultural blogosphere / Susanna Nykyri

10.30-11.00      Coffee/Tea

11.00-12.30      Session 4: Education

- Writing for Wikipedia as a learning task in the school’s information literacy instruction / Eero Sormunen, Leeni Lehtio and Jannica Heinström

- The Use of Weblogs and Microblogs in LIS Online Courses: A Case Study / Lu Xiao and Diane Neal

- Teaching social media in LIS: a bridging approach / Monica Lassi and Hanna Maurin Söderholm

- A Community-based Learning Approach towards Training Librarian 2.0 / Lu Xiao

12.30-13.30      Lunch

13.30-14.30      Researchers and Scholarly Resources—usage patterns now and into the future. Keynote: Professor Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee.

14.30-16.00      Session 5: Similarities and differences

- Author disambiguation for enhanced science-2.0 services / Jeffrey Demaine

- A Comparison of Different User-Similarity Measures as Basis for Research and Scientific Cooperation / Tamara Heck

- WikiLeaks Comments: A Qualitative Investigation / Noa Aharony

- Looking for Love in All the Right Places: Defining Success in the World of Online Dating / Christopher Mascaro, Rachel Magee and Sean Goggins

16.00-16.30      Coffee/Tea and closing of conference

Each presentation have 20 minutes including discussions scheduled for them.

Grant applicants are requested to submit:
- one-page explanation for a) why the applicant wants/needs to attend the ISSOME Doctoral Forum, and b) why the applicant demands funding support, and c) an estimation of the travel and accommodation expenses
- proof of PhD student status (e.g. copy of valid student ID, matriculation confirmation, written confirmation by PhD supervisor)
- optional recommendation letters (e.g. from PhD supervisors or professors from the home university)

Grant applications are accepted in the following formats: .pdf, .rtf, .doc, .docx. The applications should be sent to mari...@abo.fi no later than June 3, 2011. Notification of granted support will be sent out on June 10, 2011.

And remember. There is still a little over five weeks to submit a proposal.